Mitosis

Mitosis is a type of cell division in eukaryotic (specifically somatic) cells which produces two daughter (diploid) cells with the same number and kind of parent chromosomes as the parent nucleus. The process begins with the division of the cell after the metaphase, and, after the division, two cells with the equal number of chromosomes as the parents. Mitosis is important in DNA replication, as 3.1 billion DNA particles iare replicated during the 8-hour interphase before the cell division. When diploid cells divide, they have half as many chromosomes, their haploid count; this occurs in the related process of meiosis.